3rd November 2008, 08:50 PM
You are right Troll the archaeologist is cheap but the total station does not need things like accommodation (tax or untaxed), pensions or training. You dont have to bother about the weather or how deep the trench is and they always come in high vis colours.
So in the long term they will be better value.
I have to say Troll has hit on a point here - how far does cheap labour inhibit the intoduction of technology?
I would also ask how many on site tasks can actually be undertaken in a warm dry office compared to a freezing cold wet miserable site. I have just spent the last hour measuring grave markers. It takes about the same time to take the measurement via a digital recording system as it does on site -which is better?
I suspect the attributes I am recording will not actually yield any useful infomation so is it worth bothering? If in the future this data becomes vitally important it could be retrieved from the archive.
Peter Wardle
So in the long term they will be better value.
I have to say Troll has hit on a point here - how far does cheap labour inhibit the intoduction of technology?
I would also ask how many on site tasks can actually be undertaken in a warm dry office compared to a freezing cold wet miserable site. I have just spent the last hour measuring grave markers. It takes about the same time to take the measurement via a digital recording system as it does on site -which is better?
I suspect the attributes I am recording will not actually yield any useful infomation so is it worth bothering? If in the future this data becomes vitally important it could be retrieved from the archive.
Peter Wardle